Luke 24:45 — Community Reflections

LUKE 24:45 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,”

Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures — he opened their minds (dianolxen auton ton noun): the divine enabling of scriptural understanding. Just as their eyes were opened for recognition (verse 31), their minds are opened for understanding. The understanding that was unavailable before the resurrection is now given by the risen Lord.

Church Fathers on Luke 24:45

After having presented Himself to be seen with the eye, and handled with hands, and having brought to their minds the Scriptures of the law, He next opened their understanding that they should understand what was read.
Bede · 8th century

Otherwise, how would their agitated and perplexed minds have learnt the mystery of Christ. But He taught them by His words; for it follows, And said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, that is, by the wood of the Cross.
Theophylact · 11th century

For it was said, Ask of me, and I will give you the heathen for your inheritance. But it was necessary that those who were converted from the Gentiles should be purged from a certain stain and defilement through His virtue, being as it were corrupted by the evil of the worship of devils, and as lately converted from an abominable and unchaste life. And therefore He says that it behoves that first repentance should be preached, but next, remission of sins, to all nations. For…
Eusebius of Caesarea · 4th century

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